heard the remains are reviewed by machinery. finally on mortgage is deposited in valley feel. on a. pleasure cruise it was nearly two hundred aboard a sunk on the river volga entire to start in central russia one woman has died. more than a hundred people remain missing out that rescue operation continues between all the latest developments in the ongoing story. a record breaking our top news stories of the week spire hunting georgia as its judges high profile photographers with snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's an anti russian image posted by president saakashvili. it's demo deja vu for angry egyptians as they return to tahrir

square to vent against the interim leaders of a say stole their revolution. and behold the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls over the last time as rupert murdoch sacrifices the title while phone hacking claims and reporter arrests intensified. welcome to watching r.t. and run of the week's top stories with me kevin oh in breaking news to start this hour a desperate search is underway off for a pleasure cruiser carrying nearly two hundred people aboard sank on the river volga this afternoon at least one woman is reported to have died there is room on the first images we've got through now of the rescue operation in the tatarstan republic in central russia so many of those on board have been rescue. dozens of

passengers remain unaccounted for according to the latest news feeds for us following the developments for us and we're looking at those pictures unfortunately for want to see that boat went down didn't the figures regarding who's been saved and who's missing have been fluctuating to what more do we know. plus the lately there's been a lot of conflicting reports on the numbers involved in the latest figures we have in the emergencies ministry of that there were one hundred eighty eight passengers on board that flight increase and the early numbers of people to that we know as you said one person has been burns to died and number of people have been injured they've managed to pull more than eighty people out from the most of the emergencies ministry his still more than one hundred of those passengers unaccounted for and of course the rescue operation ongoing at the neighborhood we know that there was a posse that managed to pick up a lot of days initial passing just the women he was content that was said to pull

it initially when that they ran into trouble and a helicopter rescue base will say dispatched along with divers now the emergencies ministry has just i dispatched another plane with another large number of rescues to head down to that state because i want very concerned to find those missing people establish exactly what happened and get them out. this is a boat of course that knew those waters well isn't it one of the thoughts about what went so badly wrong you know that. well the cold river very popular this time of year for these types of plays this is a tough thing to play it takes two days to travel for. about fifteen miles. just in the sure. cause of the loss of places now. we can hear. the voices of.

them there was some one hundred ninety people among which the one hundred fifty seven passengers. people were rescued. right now. some of the injured. it's too early to list. them but first reports suggest that. rescuers who are writing at the scene the operation will continue until all the passengers are. now the passenger basis. commentator says that possibly there was some design. left. behind we've actually also heard reports of the plane. sales. problems with the engines to quite possibly technical difficulties might come into play here. and will be. exactly what happened at the time being. really on exactly where these people are getting them out of the water absolutely

sir for you know let me bring our views moorpark grow about you know of this vessel. was a pleasure cruise really been used for years for day trips and weekend breaks along the volga river it was a double dip ship it was called the bold. nine hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia a picture of their seats in for one hundred forty passengers aboard it could reach a speed of nearly twelve knots. around twenty two kilometers an hour the boats also had restaurants and bars aboard and it provided intertainment as well since so most trips lasted a few days at a time is being suggested that the bulgaria's engines as we just heard in sara's report there may not have been working properly at the time of the accident that hasn't been confirmed yet but to say as soon as we know more on this breaking news if you just joined us just to recap what the headline is pleasure cruises gone down

current nearly two hundred people on the river volga casualties at least one so far we know that one woman has died we're hearing that many of been rescued but also confusion over how many people are still missing this happened in the republic of toughest in russia as you can see there from those pictures it's where the of all the river broadens out why beltre it went down in twenty meters of water about three kilometers off shore as a say soon as we know more we are the station to keep you updated on this unfortunate breaking news. in georgia three high profile photographers have been charged with spying for moscow tbilisi claims it has video confessions proving their guilt but skeptics say because soccer's village on a witch hunt to score political points out is time part reports next on what's being seen is the russian high. georgia is on a style roll and not for the first time this time the spotlights been shined on

those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was their supposed muster at first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia in turn moscow has accused georgia of paranoia the georgians are so quick to seek a spy label on to anyone i guess is just the level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un one of the photographers was released without charge the other three were charged with espionage and will remain in pretrial custody for two months one of them has gone on hunger strike and protest. however georgian president mikheil saakashvili is person. has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spying the russian opposition figures skeptical she was ignored they are looking actually at wife two and they have

a credit check out enjoy your prime time where everything. paid can go i don't know we'll go out there and we never saw any kind of real human case that government this isn't the first time this has happened last year thirteen people were arrested and accused of being on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them received sentences of up to fourteen years in prison for the georgian government this is a matter of actions to others in georgia of very critical of what they see as particularly ruthless political calculation. or are surely. you are. you are. right of the. words because it really isn't a russian who's never criticize or who's criticize who are you slightly but i was there and you're going by. the police you must know deal with the most serious

about occasions spying it has a neighbor with whom its relations are rock bottom and it has some men in jail but many are questioning whether this is really about justice or about politics tom watson. dozens of probe activists are detained in israel for trying to reach gars it with some reports suggesting though subjected to brutal treatment and currently held in a detention center in tel aviv for taking part of the so-called fly till airplane mission let's talk to an attorney who spent the day with them and an old day is in jerusalem is on the line to talk to us now mr o'day very good evening to you thank you for being on the our teens about channel what are the activists saying about their treatment in israel and. good evening thank you a. lot about the treatment. front.

the main thing is what they. talk about is the treatment in the airport which means from the moment they arrive to the airport to the moment they arrive to the jails were. holding them you know. most of the people that i met the last two days. were saying that the israeli soldiers and security forces created them very very badly some of them was being attacked by strangers they had some women and men. they were. very very small. amount of people in water. for a long time after that they told them that they are going to take them to the hotels and they were surprised when they put them in a big vehicles of metal vehicles used for the prisoners and they keep them for more than four hours in a hut with or without rotary go through

a until they arrived to the jurors were staying in to care for somebody around one of ours so for all of this period these people were treated very very badly. they didn't get any food any water also they didn't get any explanation about the reason for not allowing them to enter. a. distillation forecast the reason is because it's not really prague kate and they landed in tel aviv surely must be expected to happen. these people actually. came here or they were planning to come to them to participate. activism activism like cultural activities to visit. some places. and there when israeli security them on the airport about the reason of their visit they explained

there and they also question. if they are going to participate on demonstrations or . things and all of the people that i met today answered very clearly that they don't have any. to participate or they are not planning to participate in anything mr asians or they are not planning to broker is really low so the. goal was to arrive to the west bank and to to meet the palestinian people to get more close to the palestinian culture and to learn more about it and also to support them to support them peacefully ways and of course talk about greece why it may or may not be involved here and there's a lot of pressure high level pressure on greece to allow the gaza. why do you think greece is preventing them from setting sail in getting and getting involved in the

first place. i i'm not sure about that but i think it's a question about the question of international relationships between different countries and here when i read the news and follow up with. this issue i think. the big pressure groups will not allow. people to leave because. i don't see any legal. excuse for not allowing this ships to go to. the were you surprised. let me put it another way you yourself are surprised that greece has got involved and has let these people set. sort of could you repeat the question let me put it another way then are you yourself surprised that. greece has

got involved here and won't let these people set sail. yes kind of. i believe of the. nation the good supporters of the palestinian cause and maybe the question is different when we are talking about the government saw. i was expecting more pressure from the greece people on the government to act differently we. are not there to prevent this move it was because of course the other side of the story is last year's flagella raid saw israel hugely condemned internationally but you think wouldn't they be wary again in dealing with these aids activists this time around or or might they see it as a punishable provocation. i think after we are after the last experience with a full flotilla i think everything is expected from the israeli side and they say

is this. clearly. media that they cannot stop the ships from getting to. mean if they have to use the force and. i think that israel is trying. not to be a pledge to use the force the game is there you want to stop me. this is one of the ways how they are doing this by not allowing these ships to ship once they ship to work because i think there's little it will attack the ships. not sure about because you will it is how far this with this will go and we really appreciate being on the program human rights lawyer who's as i mentioned before the details eight activist thank you for taking the time to be with us from jerusalem.

egypt produces van de sac of the members of the security forces accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled former president hosni mubarak a statement comes after thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rally in months angered over the slow pace of prosecuting officials and reforms the people say they will keep fighting until they see change out he's innocent now isn't the same. egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak but to them he's far from gone thousands of people out here on top here they all see different visions of egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been still there we go through. so the mood once the people show. the taste of freedom was short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant and worse than before and i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now. take them

through a prison i guess now they're being really violent they want to kill you that evolution they still that in the first place he's known simply as uncle horsemen here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military trials of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major amounts were putting forth one of the many demands including transparent trials for the fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials they got rid of mubarak you know their high ranking officials but now egypt is the same way it was before january sort of broke that little faces a little mubarak some mean and barracks rather than what they're offering them running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking you to the factories they can pay you to be speaking to the workplaces and meaning that in every single word please we have an egypt that is amenable no water was never

interested in politics until january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is gone and she will continue to fight to the end. i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want a constitution bend free elections others think the new laws should follow the vote but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the end and he's in no way r t cairo. coming up in the program just before the anniversary of europe's worst massacre since the nazi era travels to struggle in its people do with search of justice that's ahead. you're watching r.t.

from moscow it's now eighteen minutes past nine rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they're now moving towards the key town of zlitan after a six week long impasse but the capital still remains over one hundred fifty kilometers away the rebels say their progress has been slow because of a lack of ammunition a nato support alliance has been running low in fact on weapons that it's push against gadhafi forces and it's asked germany for munitions and as a broyard from the group research of globalization says nato members broke international norm by supplying weapons to rebels in libya. definitely years via violating the nations' sanctions as well as international law there's something called the a t t and under the a.t.v. tonight supply arms to the rebels this is not new news either they've been saying this from march that they've been sending arms to the rebels whatever you want to

call them the transitional council forces revolutionaries whatever you want to call them they are a minority and they are being armed by the outside in some cases they are better weapons in the actual living military right now i don't see needle winning unless dean feed or they continue to arm the rebels one minute story or maybe our coverage this hour for an update on the breaking news about the pleasure cruise there with almost two hundred on board the sun was after noon on the river vulgar in russia's republic of tartus stan so far we know that one person is reported to have died but there are conflicting reports about how many people are missing well the vessel sank here within three minutes we're hearing now that's the latest news line through of getting into difficulties obviously went very quickly it was three kilometers from the shore when it sank it's thought to have been carrying people on a weekend sites. break it was on route to the republic's capital khazan a nearby ship managed to save some of those who were on board the fifty six year old vessel which was called the bulgaria the rescue operation continues with

helicopters and divers searching for the missing i would this is say a storm is likely to be to blame for the sinking presently bet it was all to be a motorcyclist it was a special investigation looking at the latest pictures we've got through from the scene unfortunately not much to see obviously that storm or whatever caused the problem has died down now but as to say the latest news we're just getting through now adding to this is the details coming through hearing maybe quite important is that the vessel sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty that's not allowing many people to get to life jackets and suchlike so as soon as we know more we will of course choose. the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering the struggle it's a massacre is likely to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague luggage angrily disrupted his second hearing berating the judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but many serbs feel that the tories general's trial will not bring full justice of his

country over reports. liquid little town of slippery meets in bosnia and herzegovina who looks in to like you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and a church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixteen years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the us love war and seventy two became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today a memorial for the deceased sits on the grounds of a former un military base the sort of thing it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and taurus to get boston and the bosnian capital of. course aren't shown at the thousands of serbian graves that line cemeteries all around seventy it's a region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine

hundred ninety s. but senators like these were going terra families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors ronnie comes here all the time his entire family lies here he says i bosnian muslim general is responsible so you will be no i was only nine years old when i said already stick away everything i had in life first to kill my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows how or why i survived. but even the word on the survived his loss just like that thousands of people here is being ignored. each was at the hague tribunal and i was supposed to be a witness in his trial but in the end me and about thirty other witnesses were simply cast aside they didn't call us didn't ask what happened to our families and the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the blocking force are heinous

atrocities visited an old sites and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided in blaming the serves the purpose is to. create a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions in the curb. or circumvent so that so-called precedent can be traced through the years into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and most recently libya coldplay gunwale hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones it is very important. the creation of the. scenario for makes sure in the minds of most people. was drones which was preventable but for whatever reasons so-called

international community do anything about it. some might say the journey from simply needs it to benghazi via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destinations karina's are about r t button and herzegovina. stans governments admitted that a series of explosions that shook the city of a bell and a coded munitions there last happened on thursday and killed fifteen people according to official reports initially authorities said it was an incident at a fireworks factory and that there were no casualties but that contradicted eyewitness pictures and reports that around two hundred were killed and scores injured it's understood that the officials responsible for giving out false public information being sacked turkmenistan's long been a very secretive state even internet was banned until recently repair works and i've said to be on the way in the stricken town and all the victims are being

promised government aid. britain scandal plagued news of the world newspapers rolled off the presses for the last time its final edition was apologetic with defiant after being hastily closed by rupert murdoch this last week in battle media mogul flew to london to take charge of the crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international and claim journalist happy the phones of murder victims and dead soldiers families police made a number of arrests on friday including a former editor of the paper who's also served as the u.k. prime minister's press chief meteorologist phil reese's rupert murdoch's now lost his standing get immunity among britain's political elite. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on their knees to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime minister if it you know they won it and then you find a next day you find that prime minister reading the signs and looking like an idiot

saying well the sun got me elected i mean you've got this demeaning of british democracy as it initiates democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of but i think and there was a for a silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be there they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed rupert murdoch has a very finely tuned business brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called east sky b. and that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy i think he felt that as a businessman he had to sacrifice the news of the world because it in terms of the whole news international it's a tiny part of or about the political past have been sucking up to rupert murdoch for so many years including prime minister david cameron he now has to stand back and say no i can't do it anymore it's going to bad. so if you just joined us here

at r.t. this sunday afternoon let me bring you up to date on our breaking news a pleasure cruiser with almost two hundred on board is sunk on the revolver in russia's republic of tatarstan one person is known to have died and there are conflicting reports about how many people are missing now the vessel reportedly sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty and it was three kilometers from the shore when it went down it's sort of been carrying people on a weekend sightseeing break it was on route to the republic's capital because than a nearby ship saved some of those who were on board the fifty six year old vessel which was called the bulgaria i would say a storm is likely to be to blame for the sinking put others suggest that the boat engines weren't properly working at the time that something has not been substantiated or confirmed the rescue operation continues this evening with helicopters and divers searching for the missing president but it was sort of a special investigation into what happened. i'm kevin o.

and you're watching our team from moscow more on this breaking news in just a few moments. in the year in iraq isn't the true journalists. we still in the u.s. is there is to waste the time tryna get killed. by. publicizing the invite to make the. start of the of the. choosing this week.